“Perhaps, then, it is not accurate to categorise and separate the arts according to their immediate temporal or spatial qualities. Rather, something extra comes into play when they combine, something similar to Pound’s “ideograms” or the gestus described by Brecht and Weill: an ideogram or a gestus, explains Albright, “is not an element within any specific artistic medium; it is not an icon, not a word, but a chord, vibrating between media, abolishing the distinctness of media.” Albright’s understanding of these gestures able to speak across genres is reminiscent of Cook’s hypothesis concerning audiovisual dialogues in film: form him, the crux of the question is not whether or not music and image can say the same thing but, rather, what their “emergent” language is when combined.”
(page 62)
Holly Rogers. Sounding the Gallery: Video and the Rise of Art-Music. Oxford: OUP, 2013.
Found while browsing the stacks at the Belzer Library, SFU.
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